This process involves blending printmaking ink with turpentine and applying it to the glass, later on, which the carved block is placed until the colors are evenly settled throughout the block.

Once I was out camping in the woods of Kondgaon, encompassed by rich green trees with a waterway stream close to our camping area. So, while I was strolling around, I saw a dim light visible in the middle of the stream and as I went close to it I came across a man who was sitting on a rock in a waterway grasping a flame and that made me wonder about why was he sitting there? My curiosity was increasing as I observed him from a distance and I couldn’t hold back myself so I decided to approach him and somehow, I managed to go near the rock where he was sitting. At the point when I asked him what was he doing here sitting alone, he answered with an unobtrusive numbness in his voice that his lover requested that he hang tight there for her. He had an extremely baffling look as he viewed the streaming waterway around him.

When I reached home, from the camping I was still contemplating about this man who was waiting for his lover, and what was the reason he was made to stay there alone in the forest? What was his romantic tale? And my thoughts kept multiplying like bunnies. He reminded me of my building watchmen who used to recite us stories in the evening and all the children used to eagerly wait for the storytime and site around him while he used to sit on a rock placed in our garden.
Thus, I needed to simply let it out that is the point at which I chose to make this print named Nightwatchmen and his stories.

Night Watchmen And His Stories

How does one ever come out of a feeling of betrayal?
Is it easy to accept it once, let alone succumb to it twice?
The feeling of betrayal has always been close to me, just like a second skin which I have learned to stay with. It has broken me, turned my insides but also taught me so much of life's important lessons.
So much of my work has been inspired because of what I went through at a particular point of time in my life.
This piece is a part of a series called 'And He Left Again'. This feeling is the most ruthless of all the feelings because when one leaves, you start again, alone, picking yourself up from the mess that is in front of you but the worst is if they come back again and you place all your trust in them, only to be left again, it's hard to even fathom how difficult it gets to be broken twice by the same person. But it's a journey that you still walk down. You grow, you learn and You evolve.
I am grateful to all the girls who walked all over me, because without you this thought would only be in my head and now, I am able to put it into art to express what I went through, it's not only my experience but also for people who went through the same. I feel you and we are all together in this.
I also am really sorry to all the people I walked on, especially this one, who doesn’t want to be recognized but still is my muse.

And He Left Again 

While working on one of my Cd intaglio prints, I came across this style and after applying the first dap of ink on the paper, the impression surprisingly looked extraordinary. Along these lines, I thought about utilizing this cycle for making more prints. This handprint is made by using the same method i.e. by drawing and carving the lines first then applying ink on the entire forex board that takes 3 impressions. As number “3” has always attracted me and I believe it’s a number of wonders and mysteries. Feelings and sentiments are something that we as a whole never understand totally. There is continually something more profound to it that we miss out on because there is an extreme intricacy in how humans are wired. However, there is a feeling of empathy that I tend to feel pretty firmly which causes me to comprehend my environmental elements and decipher that with the help of art in the form of painting, printmaking, and music. Similarly, once when I was jamming on my guitar, I happen to hit the right cord while expressing my feelings through it and that’s when I got this title which inspired me to make 
this print.

This woodcut print depicts a ballroom setting where the lovers/couples come and indulge in meeting new individuals and making sets to hit the dance floor with and partake in the evening, where everybody is encountering different feelings like being anxious, inquisitive, happy, and the dopamine level is high!

Who Loves Who

This is one of the styles to make a print I invented during the Covid-19 lockdown. This process involves blending printmaking ink with turpentine and applying it to the glass, later on, which the carved block is placed until the colours are evenly settled throughout the block.
The work represents the relationships between Adam and Adam. It depicts chemistry between a male human and a merman, who meet each other only when it downpours. This work speaks a lot about strong and constant affection towards your loved one and sharing those special moments when you meet your other half after quite a while.

Adam And Adam 

This one is again one of the styles to make a print I invented during the lockdown. This process involves blending printmaking ink with 
turpentine and applying it on the glass, later on, which the carved block is placed until the colors are evenly settled throughout the 
block.
Ruins have always been close to me in the sense that I love heritage, vintage things. You could just learn so much if you can just listen 
to them. And old things really talk they do. They have such countless secret stories and it's fascinating. 
Every inch of the wall has stories and they are just talking if you hear it. 
Once I watched a live set of musicians named Dada Disco in Taiga space. The set-up was raw and rustic by which I was captivated, 
which propelled me to make a print depicting my representation of the entire set-up. This print was a part of the ongoing print. So, it 
is the 4th impression of the print named “And He Left, Again?” When I took the 4th impression the colors had completely changed 
from what it was for the initial prints and that’s when I perceived it as a totally different subject. And subsequently named it Ruins.


Ruins

It is a long-awaited print and everything just rightly falls in place. I had made a sketch of this work 3/4 years back yet never took its 
print 
During the lockdown phase, I was once in the backwoods of Nainital for 4 days. Every night I would rest taking a gander at the moon 
and it seemed like we were having a goodnight conversation. While returning back from the woodland the sketch hit me and the 4 
days with the moon came together to make this art. Nature has always been an incredible inspiration and I have never come empty-handed from it.
This work speaks a lot for itself, there’s a dreamer in all of us and we all unconsciously escape reality. A figure skimming among the 
mists on a moon which resembles his ride for, an encompassed evening among infinite stars and galaxies and he's awestruck by its 
inconceivable magnificence. More like caught up in a fantasy world and that’s his utopian moment!


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Sukraat Tiwari